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[juldea]

I broke 150, by the way. For the past 3 days it's been 149.x. Hooray! I celebrated by, um, well, I haven't celebrated. Whole lack-of-money thing. I have to go grocery shopping this week on ~$45... And if I have to buy gas, I have to go grocery shopping on ~$25. Bleh.

My clothes - well, pants - are starting to fit looser. My homemade bell-bottoms, who have a broken beltloop on the back from when I used to tug them up, now are a little baggy in the back/legs. This actually makes me feel more bad than good - all these wonderful clothes that I've gotten used to are soon going to be ebay/goodwill fodder. And I am going to need MONEY to buy new ones, even IF I only shop at TJ Maxx/Ross. No one around to donate size 10 clothing to me... heh. And since I don't want to buy new clothes until I have reached my goal (and I don't even know what my goal is, it's a general I'll-know-it-when-I-get-there type thing), I'm going to be wearing these too-large-for-me things for a while...

Boy, my problems are rough, aren't they. *snort at myself*

On a totally different topic, the idle thought came to me of officially changing my name from Julia to Juldea. It's... it's a nickname that means a lot to me, and stands for a part of me that I would like to express to the world. If you don't understand, that's fine. Anyway, it's just something I'm pondering. My parents would probably kill me. ;)

Back to my latest comic... and then to finish Atlas Shrugged!

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[goldbug.livejournal.com]

maybe your new sewing project should be making your pants smaller! undo the seams and take them in at the waist and hips...

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that would work right. It'd kind of throw off the symmetry of the sizing... Make the back pockets spread out weirdly and stuff. Plus, jeans seams are really hard to work with.

And the -idea- of going shopping for all new clothes is fun! Just when I wonder how I will actually -do- it do I get worried. Maybe I should go to a consignment store with all my clothes and then use the "credit" I get there to shop for new ones... Oh well I have a while to ponder this. :)

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

heh i don't have long before i'll have to go shopping too. fortunately, molly is going to give me her maternity clothes, so i won't have to spend a fortune.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Molly the mud character or another Molly?

Ack, it must be rough to find correctly-sized maternity clothes in Japan!

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

maternity clothes in japan? laf.

KC and i went out to return a pair of pants for her, last week, here in town, and she had to exchange a "large" for an "extra-large."
KC wears a size 3/4 in american sizes.

molly is the wife of another guy on nick's ship, bodee (i think is how it's spelled). she just had her daughter a couple of weeks ago and at dinner 2 nights ago she offered me her maternity clothes when i need them.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Are there at least American-sized clothes available on base? Sheesh.

But it's cool that there are several people around who are willing to donate things. :)

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[goldbug.livejournal.com]

maybe you should try the salvation army, or goodwill. or cool thriftshops in the city.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yup those are definitely on the list.... Thrift stores galore!

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

Chris and I have talked about actually changing our names when we move to California, to Desmond Who and Withlyn Tiddlekins. It's just a weird thing. I'm personally in favor of everybody changing their name at least once, whenever they feel like grownups. In fact I have an elaborate (well, not really) naming scheme for people to tie into the family organization in my culture-of-one.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in this naming scheme :)

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

I broke 150, by the way. For the past 3 days it's been 149.x. Hooray!

Dear God, I just realized you are now literally half my size. Man I feel big all of a sudden.

And congrats by the way!

As for the clothes dilemna, is baggy still in style? ~_^

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Heh I guess it could be ;) But the problem is that my pants are obviously not constructed to BE baggy... they taper and such, but now the tapering is sagging. Heh. I guess if I really get small enough maybe they'll look right. Heh.